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1.3 International

Conferences and Cross

Border Cooperation

Several international seminars and conferences extent, should help their clients to identify the link
are organised and attended by the Euroguidance between career goals and mobility opportunities.
centres every year. These bring guidance experts
together to support knowledge sharing and net- Through an opening address in the plenary sessi-
working. Guidance professionals who participate on, Euroguidance Sweden pointed out that peri-
in these international conferences are also looking ods of learning mobility contribute to a more open
for new potential partners for EU-funded project society, as it develops greater understanding and
cooperation and exploring possibilities to go on tolerance among those who participate. In the
study visits to other countries. closing speech, it was clarified that the Eurogui-
dance Network supports international coopera-
tion in the field of lifelong guidance and is open
International IAEVG Conference 2018 for any further cooperation with the IAEVG.
Euroguidance as a visible actor at IAEVG The workshop presentation is available on the
(through Nordic-Baltic cooperation) Euroguidance Network website.
The annual IAEVG (International Association for
Educational and Vocational Guidance) conferen-
ce was organised in Gothenburg in 2018 by the
Swedish Association of Guidance Counsellors. It
attracted 750 participants from 40 countries. The
Nordic and Baltic Euroguidance centres coor-
dinated an information stand for the whole Eu-
roguidance Network, where brochures and other
promotional materials were disseminated and
visitors could view a slideshow of young people,
sharing their mobility experiences.
Together the Nordic and Baltic centres also ran a
workshop called “Guidance for 21st century skills
through learning abroad”. The workshop pointed
out learning abroad as a means of developing
future skills, and as a result of the workshop
discussions, critical thinking ended up as a winner Nordic Baltic Euroguidance colleagues at the
among these skills. The participants also dis- Euroguidance stand at the IAEVG 2018 in
cussed how guidance professionals could support Gothenburg
individuals to acquire them. Here it was men-
tioned that guidance professionals, to a greater © Euroguidance Sweden

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